People v. Ah Sam
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Municipal Criminal Court of the City and County of San Francisco. The facts are stated in the opinion. The indictment was as follows: Ah Tuck and Ah Sam are accused by the Grand Jury of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, by this indictment, found this 25th day of August, A. D. 1870, of the crime of forgery, committed as follows: The said Ah Tuck and Ah Sam, on the 9th day of July, A. D. 1870, at the city, county, and State aforesaid,…
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Appeal from the Municipal Criminal Court of the City and County of San Francisco. The facts are stated in the opinion. The indictment was as follows: Ah Tuck and Ah Sam are accused by the Grand Jury of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, by this indictment, found this 25th day of August, A. D. 1870, of the crime of forgery, committed as follows: The said Ah Tuck and Ah Sam, on the 9th day of July, A. D. 1870, at the city, county, and State aforesaid, feloniously, falsely, and willfully did have and keep in their possession live hundred certain false, forged, and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Temple, J.:
The defendant was indicted jointly with one Ah Tuck, under the seventy-sixth section of the Act concerning crimes and punishments, for having in his possession blank and unfinished bank* bills, in the form and similitude of a bill for the payment of money, .made to be issued by a corporate bank, to wit: The Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, being a corporation doing business at Hongkong, with intent to fill up and complete the same, or to cause it to be done, and' to pass or cause them to be passed, etc.
The defendant having been convicted, on motion in…
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